Pathfinder-Ralen Bek-Day Six

Day Six

This was a truly eventful day for me. I awoke to find that several of my companions had gone off or been taken somewhere by magical means and were now equipped with new items of odd sorts. We also have an alchemist of sorts in the group now. The rogue has vanished it would seem. Hardly surprising. There was also a gnoll, a foul creature, in the room now. We did not delay and set off for the elevator to the lower levels than, taking this gnoll with us.

Alas, it would seem the elevator was a trap or perhaps we weighed too much for it as it collapsed when the first group went down. The gnoll died due to the fall and everyone else was okay with some damage. The rest of us climbed down on the rope and due to the commotion several kobolds entered the room with their mounts, a hideous creature called a slurk. They were quickly put down and we set off on the path that had the most travel upon it.

Several more kobolds fought us with one dying and the other retreating out of fear. We came across the one who had retreated soon after however and it attempted to barter with us, offering us items in exchange for my group leaving. We refused all offers that this peon gave us and demanded to speak the true authority in the area.

We were taken then through what remained to a throne room of the kobolds. There we questioned their king about the ritual whilst attempting to barter with him for the children and it was revealed to us that one of his brothers would be doing this ritual. We pointed out that this would be a prime opportunity for a usurpation and he agreed with us, executing the shaman quite quickly after he reached that conclusion after our argument.

However, the freedom of the children was not something so easily won. The king challenged me to a duel and as I am a paladin I accepted. His servants healed me, attempting to dull my reflexes then but a potion the barbarian had quickly fixed the matter. Combat was entered then in a hastily set up arena that canceled out arcane magic. I struck him several times with my ability to smite evil and we both threw each other into the boundaries of the arena, receiving shocks in the process until I fell.

When I awoke due to my god healing me for fighting well I found all but one of the kobolds to be dead or intoxicated. I destroyed the dagger the shaman had on him then and with the assistance of another brother of the now deceased kobold king we acquired the children and a companion of the halfling we had saved.

On the way out I killed the slattern responsible for this whole mess, the deceased kings wife. The summoner had wanted her as a slave but I said no and the matter was settled with the death of the kobold.

We then took all the children back to the town and were rewarded in various manners. One gave us nothing, another gold, the butcher has promised free meat to any of us, the ranger gave us the gold promised, and the last one, a necromancer, attempted to give us a halfling skeleton. I refused the last and so we settled on a spell for the sorceror.

I felt my god imbue me with more power than and he spoke to me of the powers I now have. I am now immune to all types of fear and I now have immunities to all diseases. Both are strike me as useful abilities though this immunity to fear gives me a bit of a pause. Fear is a useful thing to have. In addition, I acquired my first mercy and decided to acquire the ability to deal with shaken people.

To finish out the day we went to the blacksmith again and discovered that he had been replaced with another. I acquired a masterwork heavy wooden shield after several members of the group vanished into the back room with the new smith. I suspect we have a new job to do. I will find out later.

Pathfinder-Ralen Bek-Day Five

Day Five

This was a most difficult day. I am not sure how many we killed on this day but it was many. Our first fight began right after we were all woken by a sound. Upon investigating the sound we discovered the cause to be a large spider. It was quickly killed and the barbarian took a bite out of it for some reason. He did not look so well after that. I do not understand some people.

Upon opening another secret door we came across a group of kobold and killed all but one for questioning. He told us where several of the children were and so we set out, following the sounds of a fight coming from ahead. We came across two of the children then along with a halfling from an adventuring company. We took another kobold for questioning and then the halfling told us of how there was a third child on this floor who had been taken by some creature of dwarven origin. An undead of some sorts.

After making sure the children would be okay with the halfling we set out to find this dwarven thing and came across another group of kobolds of which we subdued two. They revealed no new information about the dwarven creature and so we proceeded after knocking them out.

We encountered a hound of hell at the dwarf’s door and killed it with some difficulty on account of the half orc. The dwarf came next with the summoner’s eidolon rushing to grab the child away while I moved to strike the dwarven creature, a forge spurned. I struck with my ability to smite evil and did some serious damage. It was discovered then that this creature could heal quickly and it attempted to strike back at me. Torag must have shielded me from this strike for it only managed to hit itself with its chain.

It took several more hits for the forge spurned to die and then I set loose the souls of those the dwarven undead had captured. We awoke the child and set off back to where the other two and the halfling were so that we could rest from our wounds.

I must sleep now for we will be going downward after the other children soon. Given the difficulty of this floor I suspect that we may not all live. I must be at my best.

Pathfinder-Ralen Bek-Day Four

Day Four

The matter of the child we met yesterday was settled during the night as she appeared to us in her true form, revealing the evil I felt yesterday to be caused by her being a werewolf. I have to wonder when she became afflicted with this illness. She had stated she had been at the orphanage when it had been standing so perhaps she is the reason for its destruction or maybe she was afflicted with the illness during the years since its destruction. Perhaps werewolves were behind the destruction of the orphanage and bit her in the process.

A mystery for another day.

We continued on our journey and came across a giant who had lost his ring and we assisted him in finding it. We continued into the monastery again for the second time in these few days and fought several skeletons before finding the room that was where we had killed the worg the other day. It seems the kobolds had gone through here and the wolf was gone, skeleton and all.

We descended and came across our first group of kobolds, a mixture of slaves and warriors. As per my gods ethos I knocked out one slave while all the others perished. We questioned the survivor and then moved through a room with some interesting lizards and then through a room of traps. The traps were deactivated by the halfling and then we proceeded again.

After going through several secret doors we came across an allip and slew it. Moments later we found the person the allip had come from and killed a homunculus that was guarding the skeletal remains.

We rested then so those with magic could restore their abilities.

Pathfinder-Ralen Bek-Day Three

Day Three

I awoke to the sounds of an explosion and found our ranger to be dead due to a goblin from a group we had fought in the forest. I rue now that we let one run away. I had thought the survivor would have been too terrified to do anything but it would seem not.

As morning came the ranger who had aided us came to seek our aid in a personal matter. It seemed his child had gone missing and we agreed to assist him. Some of the group asked for payment and then the halfling went and asked around. It seems that the children had headed for destroyed orphanage in the outskirts of town that had been burnt down some ten years ago. It would seem that this is a local dare of sorts that is common amongst children.

We set out and arrived at the orphanage without delay or distraction. There was little left as it had been burned down some time ago and we found no signs that anyone but us had been at this orphanage recently. A small torture room was discovered by the halfling that was now populated by a group of spiders. The spiders were killed and then we set off back to town, watching for side paths or camps that the kids might have used.

A small child came out of the woods then, telling us that she knew where the missing kids were and despite her obvious lying we followed her as there were no other leads. Then we came upon the brother of our deceased ranger, a half orc barbarian who had taken to drinking as a result of the tragedy. He joined us and after examining the campsite we determined that there were kobold scales everywhere. Given the girls lying earlier I decided to see if I could tell if she was evil. She most definitely was.

I was going to attempt to kill her when the sorceror set a tree on fire and the girl escaped in the confusion. I was most irritated with this development. We found her path to be going in a different direction than the one the kobolds had gone and so we put her out of our mind for the moment.

We continued on then, discovering the kobolds were heading to the monastery we had just visited and then stopped to rest for the night.

Pathfinder-Ralen Bek-Day Two

Day Two

We awoke and continued to explore the monastery. It was not long before we came across a chamber that held a wolf that could talk! The size of it was massive, quite bigger than any others I had ever seen or that we had fought on the way here. A brief negotiation followed with the wolf and he revealed that he had more then enough of the mushrooms we still needed to acquire. The ranger stated that the beast had no intention of giving us what we wanted and thus it attacked us. The ranger took several blows from falling rocks along with the wolf and then was savaged by the wolf as well. We all attacked the wolf then while the ranger fell back and I determined that the wolf was evil using my abilities given to me by Torag. As the others did some damage through various blows I struck twice killing it with my holy blows, making the wolf, or perhaps a worg, a piece of smeared wall art with my second strike.

The others took what treasure they could find and then we went back to town with all the ingredients. Payment was acquired from our contact and then most of the group has a weapon improved by a local blacksmith before we celebrated a job well done.

Pathfinder- Ralen Bek- Day One

Day One

I started my adventures today in service of my god Torag as a paladin in the town of Falcon’s Hollow. I hope I can live up to the standards my god aspires to.

The rest of the people I am in a group with are an interesting lot. There is a halfling who is likely a thief of sorts, a half-elf sorceror, a ranger, someone who calls himself a samuri, and a drow who is a summoner. Perhaps the samuri is like a paladin in a different land. That will be a mystery for another day. I will be keeping my eye on the summoner for the drow are an unreputable race.

A contact in some guild that the halfling associates with contacted us with a job in the area. It seems there is a plague in the area that is resisting all attempts to be cured. The others bargained for payment with this contact and then we set off to consult with a local alchemist. She set us off to acquire three ingredients that she said could be used for a cure: some old moss from a tree, some root called rattail, and seven of a certain type of mushroom. Ironbloom I believe.

We stopped at a logging camp to consult with a local ranger about possible places to find these three ingredients and set off then. A hobgoblin ambushed us on the way to find the moss and was dispatched with ease though the halfling took a bit of damage. The sorceror give him a potion for healing. When I am given the ability to cast spells by my god I will become the healer of the group.

We found the moss first in a clearing after fighting a wyrm of sorts. We set off then for another place, a witch’s hut on the edge of a lake. On the way a giant mosquito of sorts attacked us and we slaughtered it with ease. At the witch’s hut we were attacked by a cauldron of all things. I am not actually sure if we killed it but it stopped moving after a while.

Our last destination was a dwarven monastery and when we arrived several wolves attacked, an odd behavior as there are six of us and there were two of them. Something is odd here. We deliberated then about which way to go and acquired two mushrooms after fighting several more wolves and two creatures that are unknown to me. After killing the wolves we rested.

A start

So, why a blog?

Well, to be honest, I have no idea but it sounds like fun, throwing out my opinion on things for random friends and people on the internet to read.

So, let’s talk about things that will be on this blog of mine. At the moment, I plan for posts about characters I have in Pathfinder, random blurbs about bits of history I love, posts about my life, and posts about what I think should be.

We’ll see how well I stick to that.